Why would I do that?

Grrrrr, suppose this is just a moan really. Doc wants another fasting blood test..... Just to be quadruple sure.... :-(. But in the meantime I have now been on low carb for about 7 weeks. My spikes have been getting smaller and smaller and I have been eating clean...., just a bit heavy on the nuts and cream.

But it was the lodgers turn to cook last night. I refused a fish cake , but in the end I ate the sodding thing yesterday tea time as she had 'cooked' it. It was a tesco one with about 30g of carbs. (Fom ,memory). I had it with some roasted veg. ... Peppers, onions and tomatoes. 2 hous after, blood glucose was 21. It was 12 before I went to bed and 9 something when I got up this morning. It never dropped until noon when it was 5.9. ( best its ever been). But I feel really miserable and wobbly about even eating the fishcake.... Why didnT I just refuse?

The doc isn't sure about any diagnosis and isn't much interested in my test results, only the fasting ones he takes.


Grrrrrrr. Rant over. Back to no carbs for me. was working well until yesterday.

Thanks for reading ths far

Xx. G.

daddys1 said:

Hi @Galathea

I notice you say you are Pre Diabetic, the numbers you are quoting a very high from one meal.

You mention that your Doctor asks you to go for a fasting test, but that is only a moment in time, normally diagnosis is made by also a HbA1c. You should ask for one of these and you can get a print out of the results.

This test measures your average blood sugars over the last 2/3 months. The scale is slightly different, but a number between HbA1c of 41 & 47 is Pre diabetic 48 plus, you would be diagnosed as diabetic.

To be Pre Diabetic you would have to averaging 7.7 mmol/L or less on your meter.

Diabetic, is an average of approx 7.8mmol/L & above

The tomatoes were they tinned or fresh. Tinned have a lot more carbs than fresh. Any sauces a sweet, drinks etc
Neil

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Tomatoes were fresh.... No sauces and I drink water, sugar free Riberna or coffee... No sugar, ff milk. Readings this week showed an average of 7.76. ( not including the fishcakes!). I think I am pre diabetic.... The 7.76 is on 50 carbs a day max. My doctor simply doesn't seem to know.

G

mikej1973 said:

If galarhea has no symptoms that's not a diagnosis of diabetes. I agree that it probably should be. But its not.

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My main symptoms which have resolved massively, since going low carb, are a fast thumping heart... Heart rate down from 90 odd to mid 70's and a thickened mid section. Have lost just over a stone, all from round my middle...... Also, no longer hot all the time. This was the one symptom which caused a real problem.... Its definitely linked to high carbs for me.